Recovery, Teen, Addiction, Ketamine
Ketamine and Teenagers: Understanding the UK's Growing Youth Drug Crisis
Ketamine has rapidly become one of the most commonly used substances among UK teenagers, transforming from a niche club drug into a widespread youth crisis. What once seemed confined to nightlife now appears in school corridors, parks, and teen group chats—and the consequences are devastating families across the country.
The evidence is impossible to ignore: young people as young as 13 are experiencing bladder failure, losing consciousness, and developing severe dependencies. Parents are often completely blindsided. And frontline treatment services are seeing the same alarming patterns repeat across the UK.
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